Optimove raises $75M growth investment to manage customer-led journeys at scale
When businesses can connect more personally with their customers, those customers in turn are more loyal. However, as consumer behavior changes, especially as it did over the past 18 months, it is more difficult to establish that connection amid all of the messages put in front of them.
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Sea’s Shopee begins recruiting sellers in India, quietly launches website
Southeast Asian e-commerce giant Shopee, which recently expanded to several Latin American nations, appears to be preparing to launch in another international market: India.
The company, owned by Singapore-headquartered Sea, has quietly launched a website for sellers in India, technewss has learne
Flat6Labs closes $10M seed fund for Tunisian startups
Regional seed and early-stage venture capital firm Flat6Labs has finished raising $10 million for its seed fund targeted at Tunisian startups, according to a statement released by the company.
The seed fund, called Anava Seed Fund (ASF), at first sought a close of $3 million but instead closed 3.3x
SenseOn nabs $20M for faster, more accurate cybersecurity detection and response via its ‘triangulation’ approach
As cybersecurity becomes a bigger and more complex problem for organizations, a startup aiming to increase its accuracy in fighting breaches — by bringing in an ever-wider funnel of data and vantage points to identify issues — is expanding its business.
SenseOn, which employs cloud-base
Alpha Edison leads customer service platform Thankful's $12M round
Customer service is one of the most important relationships between a business and its customer, and that was made even more clear during the global pandemic.
Though Thankful AI CEO Ted Mico and his co-founder Evan Tann didn't start out with experience from the business side, they started the V
The Station: Tesla rolls out its FSD beta button, delivery deals heat up, micromobility evolves
Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
Aria and Rebecca have a lot to share this week, so I’ll keep my intro short. I want to direct your attention to my latest podcast episode over
Frontify raises $50M for a collaborative cloud platform for organizations to manage and use their design and brand assets
The meteoric rise of collaborative design startup Canva — now valued at $40 blion — and conversely, the viral interest we’ve been seeing in the market for NFTs where you can “buy” a share of a limited-edition digital asset, are two examples of how the tech world today
E-motorcycle maker Cake closes $60M round to scale production and retail sales
Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake has announced the close of a $60 million Series B that the company will use to help set up manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as scale up its retail capabilities.
“We are in the process of implementing initiatives to s
Swedish EV-maker Polestar to go public via SPAC at $20B valuation
Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar reached an agreement to go public via special purpose acquisition with Gores Guggenheim Inc., The SPAC deal would give Polestar a valuation of $20 billion.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the deal, that the SPAC agreement
Signal, the encrypted messaging app, is currently down for many users (Update: it’s back)
Update 2: Signal is now back up for “99% of users,” according to its Twitter account.
Update: In a tweet, Signal said the disruption is due to a hosting outage.
Hold tight, folks! Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service. We're working on bri
Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation
Ascend Money, the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 billion.
The Series C round was led by Charoen Pokphand Group, which is a major shareholder of Ascend Money, with participation
Oraan raises $3M to increase financial inclusion among Pakistani women
After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I had a really hard time opening up a basic bank account. It took me about three and a half months,” Iqbal
London’s Dice raises $122M at a $400M valuation for its intelligent event discovery and booking platform
COVID-19 really put the kibosh on live events in the last 18 months, but in the world of tech, it also meant that live event startups that found a way to survive and grow throughout the period got a lot of attention. In the latest development, Dice — a London company that has built a platform
Singapore-based logistics startup Ninja Van secures $578M Series E
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">Ninja Van, a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth.
Investors include China's Alibaba Group as well as existing investors DPDgroup's Geo